Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:37:38 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management Message-ID: <20030109223738.GA16170@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200301092207.H09M7HJ64977@asarian-host.net> References: <20030108232002.G61746-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> <20030109085442.GA10394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <200301091915.H09JFUJ16660@asarian-host.net> <20030109204920.GA15135@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20030109213415.00C454087B@server2.fastmail.fm> <200301092207.H09M7HJ64977@asarian-host.net>
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:07:36PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> I am having the A7V333 board myself, so I am fairly excited. :) The
> instability warnings came from the author himself, btw.
>
> I took the gamble, with much trepidation (I hate to ruin my filesystem),
> and, so far, my system is still running (AMD XP-2000). Temperature dropped
> down about 18 degrees C. If this is going to work, for real, then Matthew
> deserves a big cheer. :)
>
> One thing is not entirely clear, though; is this something I need to enable
> every time I reboot? Or is it tweaked to remain fixed in the BIOS?
Yes, you need to run fvcool on reboot. Slap the attached script into
/usr/local/etc/rc.d and add:
fvcool_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf
Cheers,
Matthew
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#!/bin/sh
#
if ! PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$"); then
echo "$0: Cannot determine the PREFIX" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ -z "${source_rc_confs_defined}" ]; then
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
source_rc_confs
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
fi
fi
case "$1" in
start)
case "${fvcool_enable}" in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
echo -n ' fvcool'
${fvcool_program:-${PREFIX}/sbin/fvcool} -e
;;
esac
;;
stop)
${fvcool_program:-${PREFIX}/sbin/fvcool} -d
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
;;
esac
exit 0
help
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